Saturday, March 3, 2018

On the Fact that the U.S. Went to War In 1917 for the Right of American Citizens to Travel in Fully Armed and Belligerent Merchant Ships that Were Carrying Thousands of Weapons and Millions of Rounds of Ammunition and Which Were Traveling Though Recognized War Zones

People talk about President Trump's fitness for office and while I more or less sympathize with that view (that he's a nut but not necessarily more of a nut than his four predecessors; Clinton, Obama, and the two Bushes), when you stack the dude up against Woodrow Wilson, a man who quite possibly made the biggest foreign policy blunder in human history (not just stupidly getting us involved in an unnecessary war but doing so in a manner that tilted the balance of power in Europe to such a degree that it sowed the seeds for Hitler's emergence and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia - neither of which would have likely happened had WW1 ended as a stalemate), he suddenly doesn't look so awful, does he? 

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